We invite you to submit your "Pedigree" for this Surname. Our Surname Project is primarily interested in your Paternal line, as surnames are passed down from father to son, just as the yDNA is passed down.

If you ARE A MEMBER of this Surname Project at Family Tree DNA, send your pedigree by email to WorldFamilies.net at mari@worldfamilies.net. The pedigree will then be posted on the Surname Project's Patriarchs Page by Worldfamilies.net or sent to the Project’s Administrator.

Please include the following:• Name of project• Kit Number• Name of person posting pedigree• Email address to be posted with pedigree• Name, birthdate, birthplace, spouse of Earliest Known Ancestor• List each succeeding generation, using only those four items of information (or substitute another item of information if missing an item)

(If you have more information you would like to share, you may also post a more extended version of your family pedigree on the project website’s Pedigree Forum below)

If you are NOT A MEMBER of this Surname Project at Family Tree DNA, you are welcome to post your pedigree on the Pedigree Forum below. We hope an interested researcher will see it and contact you to share information.

I am Kit 207827 from familytreedna. My confirmed Haplogroup is G2a3b1a.The 67 Marker tests have come back and should be available to view at familytreedna or ysearch.org (KRJ4M). So far I have only found one other close match to my own markers and it's a Kevin Bender (ysearch.org is VK3AE) who is a recenly acquainted cousin of mine. He also descends from Johann Heinrich Bender on my pedigree but through a son Jacob.